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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51469
Category:Conectiva Local Security Checks
Title:Conectiva Security Advisory CLA-2003:760
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory CLA-2003:760.

MPlayer is a multimedia player that supports several video and audio
codecs.

Hernán Otero found[2] a remote buffer overflow vulnerability[3] in a
function which parses ASX streaming headers. An attacker can exploit
this vulnerability to potentially execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user who is running mplayer by using a specially
crafted ASF file (which can be served remotely).

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CVE-2003-0835[3] to this issue.


Solution:
The apt tool can be used to perform RPM package upgrades
by running 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get upgrade'

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/339330
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/339193
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0835
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=CLA-2003:760
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=002003

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0835
Bugtraq: 20030925 MPlayer Security Advisory #01: Remotely exploitable buffer overflow (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106454257221455&w=2
Bugtraq: 20030926 Mplayer Buffer Overflow (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106460912721618&w=2
Bugtraq: 20030929 GLSA: media-video/mplayer (200309-15) (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106485005213109&w=2
Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2003:760
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000760
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